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Lexicon :: Strong's H4631 - mᵊʿārâ

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מְעָרָה
Transliteration
mᵊʿārâ
Pronunciation
meh-aw-raw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1704a

Strong’s Definitions

מְעָרָה mᵉʻârâh, meh-aw-raw'; from H5783; a cavern (as dark):—cave, den, hole.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 39x

The KJV translates Strong's H4631 in the following manner: cave (36x), den (2x), holes (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 39x
The KJV translates Strong's H4631 in the following manner: cave (36x), den (2x), holes (1x).

  1. cave, den, hole

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מְעָרָה mᵉʻârâh, meh-aw-raw'; from H5783; a cavern (as dark):—cave, den, hole.
STRONGS H4631: Abbreviations
מְעָרָה 40 noun feminine cave; — absolute מ׳ Genesis 19:30 +; construct מְעָרַת Genesis 23:19 +; plural מְעָרוֺת Judges 6:2 +, construct id. Isaiah 2:19; — cave, especially as place of sojourn or refuge Genesis 19:30 (J), 1 Samuel 24:3 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 24:7, 8, 10 (Ginsb; 1 Samuel 24:4, 8, 9, 11 van d. H. Bear), 1 Kings 19:1, 13; Ezekiel 33:27; Joshua 10:16 (בַמַּקֵּדָה מ׳) + 7 times Joshua 10; Judges 6:2; 1 Samuel 13:6; 1 Kings 18:4, 13, compare Psalm 57:1; Psalm 142:1; מְעָרוֺת צֻרִים Isaiah 2:19, hence פָּרִצִים מ׳ Jeremiah 7:11 robbers' cave; Isaiah 32:14 den (of wild beasts); — עֲדֻלָּם מ׳ 1 Samuel 22:1; 2 Samuel 23:13, whence in || 1 Chronicles 11:15, read probably מְצֻדַת ע׳ or מְצָדַת We, compare Dr, Bu Kit HPS; — as burial place, הַמַּכְפֵּלָה מ׳ Genesis 23:9 + (see מַכְפֵּלָה) = מ׳ alone Genesis 23:11, 17, 20; Genesis 49:29, 32 (all P).
[H4632 אֲשֶׁר לַצִּידֹנִים מ׳ Joshua 13:4 (D), cave-region in Lebanon east of Sidon, modern Mughâr Ǧezzîn, according to most, but dubious; perhaps, rather, near Tyre BuhlMDPV 1895, 55].
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

19:30; 19:30; 23:9; 23:11; 23:17; 23:19; 23:20; 49:29; 49:32

Joshua

10; 10:16

Judges

6:2; 6:2

1 Samuel

13:6; 22:1; 24:3; 24:4; 24:7; 24:8; 24:8; 24:9; 24:10; 24:11

2 Samuel

23:13

1 Kings

18:4; 18:13; 19:1; 19:13

1 Chronicles

11:15

Psalms

57:1; 142:1

Isaiah

2:19; 2:19; 32:14

Jeremiah

7:11

Ezekiel

33:27

H4631

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4631 matches the Hebrew מְעָרָה (mᵊʿārâ),
which occurs 40 times in 36 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:30 - Now Lot went up out of Zoar and lived in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:9 - that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he owns; it is at the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in your presence as property for a burying place.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:11 - “No, my lord, hear me: I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the sight of the sons of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:17 - So the field of Ephron in Machpelah, which was to the east of Mamre, the field with the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, throughout its whole area, was made over

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:19 - After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah east of Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:20 - The field and the cave that is in it were made over to Abraham as property for a burying place by the Hittites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:9 - Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:29 - Then he commanded them and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:30 - in the cave that is in the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:32 - the field and the cave that is in it were bought from the Hittites.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:13 - for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:16 - These five kings fled and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:17 - And it was told to Joshua, “The five kings have been found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:18 - And Joshua said, “Roll large stones against the mouth of the cave and set men by it to guard them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:22 - Then Joshua said, “Open the mouth of the cave and bring those five kings out to me from the cave.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:23 - And they did so, and brought those five kings out to him from the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:27 - But at the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden themselves, and they set large stones against the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:2 - And the hand of Midian overpowered Israel, and because of Midian the people of Israel made for themselves the dens that are in the mountains and the caves and the strongholds.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 13:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:6 - When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were hard pressed), the people hid themselves in caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:1 - David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. And when his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 24:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:3 - And he came to the sheepfolds by the way, where there was a cave, and Saul went in to relieve himself.[fn] Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost parts of the cave.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 24:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:7 - So David persuaded his men with these words and did not permit them to attack Saul. And Saul rose up and left the cave and went on his way.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 24:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:8 - Afterward David also arose and went out of the cave, and called after Saul, “My lord the king!” And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth and paid homage.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 24:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:10 - Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the LORD gave you today into my hand in the cave. And some told me to kill you, but I spared you.[fn] I said, ‘I will not put out my hand against my lord, for he is the LORD’s anointed.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 23:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:13 - And three of the thirty chief men went down and came about harvest time to David at the cave of Adullam, when a band of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:4 - and when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.)

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:13 - Has it not been told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD, how I hid a hundred men of the LORD’s prophets by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 19:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:9 - There he came to a cave and lodged in it. And behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 19:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:13 - And when Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. And behold, there came a voice to him and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:15 - Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David at the cave of Adullam, when the army of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 57:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:1 - To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam[fn] of David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave.
Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me,
for in you my soul takes refuge;
in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge,
till the storms of destruction pass by.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 142:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 142:1 - A Maskil[fn] of David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer.
With my voice I cry out to the LORD;
with my voice I plead for mercy to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:19 - And people shall enter the caves of the rocks
and the holes of the ground,[fn]
from before the terror of the LORD,
and from the splendor of his majesty,
when he rises to terrify the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 32:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:14 - For the palace is forsaken,
the populous city deserted;
the hill and the watchtower
will become dens forever,
a joy of wild donkeys,
a pasture of flocks;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:11 - Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:27 - Say this to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: As I live, surely those who are in the waste places shall fall by the sword, and whoever is in the open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in strongholds and in caves shall die by pestilence.
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